IRFCA

IRFCA is an electronic mailing list or discussion group connecting many railfans particularly interested in railways in India, and with links to other railfan groups around the world. As of June 2008, there are about 6,000 members in the group. Mail traffic is moderately heavy, and runs around 30 to 50 messages a day most of the time. You can subscribe to a digest version, or just check the discussions on the web, if it is inconvenient to receive individual messages in your mailbox. Topics of discussion cover just about any aspect of railways in India. Discussions are in the English language.

Topics on IRFCA cover anything and everything having to do with trains in India! Many members are interested in current passenger services, routes, timetables, etc. Others are more interested in technical details of railway operations, motive power, rolling stock, etc. Yet others are interested in historical aspects of trains in India and the subcontinent. We also get travelogues and descriptions of railfanning trips made by members. Occasionally we also discuss railways in neighbouring countries or elsewhere in the world.

Members of IRFCA are also engaged in documenting railways in India photographically and otherwise (see the main page and the links there to the photo gallery, members' web pages, documents on IR, etc.).

Some members are also engaged in preservation and heritage awareness-building activities, and other activities related to IR, although those are not officially within the scope of the IRFCA mailing list.

Area Covered

Andhra Pradesh : Guntur, Hyderabad, Secunderabad
Assam : Guwahati
Bihar : Patna, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Jamsedpur, Bokaro,
Bilaspur
Chandigarh : Chandigarh
Daman : Silvasa
Delhi : Delhi
Goa : Mapusa, Margao, Panjim, Ponda, Vasco
Gujarat : Ahmedabad, Anand, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar,
Jamnagar, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, Vapi
Haryana : Ambala, Bahadurgarh, Ballabgarh, Karnal,
Hissar, Yamunanagar, Panipat, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Panchkula
Himachal Pradesh : Baddi, Shimla
Jammu&Kashmir : Jammu, Srinagar
Jharkhand : Ranchi
Karnataka : Bangalore, Mangalore, Mysore
Kerela : Kochi
Madhya Pradesh : Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur, Ratlam,
Rewa, Ujjain
Maharashtra : Aurangabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Thane
Orissa : Bhuvaneshwar
Pondicherry : Pondicherry
Punjab : Abohar, Amritsar, Bhatinda,
Ferozpur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Pathankot, Patiala
Rajasthan : Ajmer, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur
Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore, Chennai, Madurai
Uttar Pradesh : Agra, Alahabad, Aligarh, Barielly, Bijnore,
Budayun, Chandausi, Dadri, Firozabad, Hathras, Izzatnagar,
Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mathura, Meerut, Moradabad,
Muzaffar Nagar, Mirzapur, Saharanpur, Shahjahanpur, Varanasi,
Vrindavan, Ghaziabad, Noida, Greater Noida, Hapur
Uttarakhand : Dehradun, Haldwani, Nainital, Rishikesh, Roorkee
West Bengal : Kolkata, Howrah, Siliguri